Up to Mt Kinabalu again where you can definitely hear the loud whistles and chatters of the Short-tailed Green Magpie Cissa thalassina. This bird is usually found on the lower half of the montane forest in the company of a small flock of the same species or amongst a mixed flock of laughing thrushes, drongos and treepies.  If you haven’t seen this bird before, listen to the loudest call or look for the maroon of the wings when the bird is in flight.

On a really slow morning at the Penampang hills today, we only had this bird to show.  Not that I am complaining.  After so many previous misopportunities for a decent picture, this Black & Yellow Broadbill Eurylaimus ochromalus showed up well and true.  It reminds me of the excitement it (a common bird here) caused when seen by visiting Taiwanese birders during their trips here.  The broadbill is not represented on that island while on this Borneo island, we have 8 species!  But then they have that pheasant with a Japanese name…

It just occured to me that I don’t have a picture of a woodpecker on this site.  Being a great fan of this family of birds, I guess that just won’t do.  So here is a Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker Dendrocopus moluccensis which I took a while back.   The smaller woodpeckers have such wonderful vocalisation and this one is no exception.  And it also matches its rapid notes with an incredible workrate when foraging.